8L Stats 4/1/23 - Who has been publishing lately by category and gender

[EmilyMiller]

HeyAll has been around here for a while. If anyone would know, he would.

It feels like women writers get an asterisk after their name. I don’t see that happening with male writers.

Em

 

[Duleigh]

It feels like women writers get an asterisk after their name. I don’t see that happening with male writers.

Em

No, we don't, we're safe from most of the asses, but I do have a "fan club". The pounding Chloe's score took after April Fools was embarrassing. I don't think silkstockinglover took as quite a hit but she did get beaten on.

 

[EmilyMiller]

No, we don't, we're safe from most of the asses, but I do have a "fan club". The pounding Chloe's score took after April Fools was embarrassing. I don't think silkstockinglover took as quite a hit but she did get beaten on.

There is a significant minority of mysoginists on here. It’s very sad. Haven’t read SSL’s story, but Chloe’s is amazing.

Em

 

[lc69hunter]

There is a significant minority of mysoginists on here. It’s very sad. Haven’t read SSL’s story, but Chloe’s is amazing.

Em

They exist, and walk among us, everywhere we go. I have five employees, all women, and all very competent at what they do. It pisses me off when a client treats my employees like dirt and then is nice and ass kissing to me. I generally jack up their fees, and have been known to fire a client over it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

They exist, and walk among us, everywhere we go. I have five employees, all women, and all very competent at what they do. It pisses me off when a client treats my employees like dirt and then is nice and ass kissing to me. I generally jack up their fees, and have been known to fire a client over it.

I find sales people always talk to my boyfriend first. Now admittedly he’s eight years older and more than a foot taller, but still.

I’ve had the same at work. Have had more than one meeting with me and a male member of my team where the other parties have assumed he’s the manager and I’m the junior. I still look relatively young for my age, which doesn’t help I guess.

Em

 

[KeithD]

When I go with my wife shopping for anything technical, I think my glazed look has the sales people switching attention to my wife soon enough.

 

[PastMaster]

Those stats are a complete nonesense and mean nothing at all - even if the numbers are accurate, and there are some doubts about that - what do the actually show? I know of several people on here that have alts that identify as a different genders, and the 'written by women' tag has more male writiers than enough.

 

[Duleigh]

When I go with my wife shopping for anything technical, I think my glazed look has the sales people switching attention to my wife soon enough.

Same here, I'm all PC, I can talk bits and pieces all day, but we always end up in an Apple store which is all Alien Artifacts to me, and I used to support the damn things. My wife can talk Apple to the highest ranking geek in the place, it takes them less than a second to see the blank look of terror in my eyes before they say something incomprehensible that my wife understands and they're old buddies chattin' Mac for the next hour.

 

[alohadave]

B- the 'I won't be reading this thread'

Which he also included on his post from 3/31.

They both read as troll posts from someone who flamed out but couldn't resist coming back. And people called him out on that in both threads.

 

[KeithD]

8 even was able to make LC drag back on the board--the ultimate April Fool's joke on us all.

 

[Duleigh]

Pssst...

You're all responding to a twisted April Fool's joke

I know this because,
A-his previous graphs were quite detailed, more accurate and much more informative.
B- the 'I won't be reading this thread'
C-There's a clue in the screenshot of the 'graph'
D-the damn date which he even put in the thread title FFS

But you all came storming in, picking apart a post meant to...make you do just that while taking pot shots at him.

I just found a little respect for 8L, this was clever; showed you just want to crash in and troll rather than stop and think for a minute. Couldn't wait to pile on the guy and proved this place is no better than the GB you always mock.

I'd say I lost some respect for the forum at large, but I couldn't lose anymore than I already have after Pastmaster's thread. You are doing a great job of exposing yourselves by being trapped in herd mentality.

You cool kids have a good time.

Let me see if I have this right
You came in here and picked this post apart
Then you jumped on other people who picked this post apart
You're much cooler than me.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Pssst...

You're all responding to a twisted April Fool's joke

I know this because,
A-his previous graphs were quite detailed, more accurate and much more informative.
B- the 'I won't be reading this thread'
C-There's a clue in the screenshot of the 'graph'
D-the damn date which he even put in the thread title FFS

But you all came storming in, picking apart a post meant to...make you do just that while taking pot shots at him.

I just found a little respect for 8L, this was clever; showed you just want to crash in and troll rather than stop and think for a minute. Couldn't wait to pile on the guy and proved this place is no better than the GB you always mock.

I'd say I lost some respect for the forum at large, but I couldn't lose anymore than I already have after Pastmaster's thread. You are doing a great job of exposing yourselves by being trapped in herd mentality.

You cool kids have a good time.

Hi LC,

How’s it hanging?

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Which he also included on his post from 3/31.

They both read as troll posts from someone who flamed out but couldn't resist coming back. And people called him out on that in both threads.

He’s done it before 4/1 and his stats were just as crap.

Em

 

[Bramblethorn]

Absolutely. Just the first line: "This is the % if a 4837-story subset of stories published since by category and by gender" da fork?
then 8letters gives ? multiple values:

? = Blank or No Answer for Gender
followed by
? is the percentage of all stories published by that category

That's not explained as clearly as it might be, but I think what it means is:

- The "?" column shows what percentage of stories (in that category) were from authors who left gender as blank/No Answer
- The F/M/O columns are the percentages for the category by female/male/all other answers, after excluding blank/No Answer.

If one was willing to assume that the split of genders for blank/No Answer was the same as for those who did give some answer, then those F/M/O columns would represent the actual percentages.

Then 8letters ignores four categories. Even if there were no stories published that meets 8letter's since by subset "rules", 0 is still a number and leaving it out shows that 8letters didn't have a problem with manipulating the data.

If the approach taken was to collect the stories first and then identify the categories from those entries (as opposed to hard-coding in a list of what the categories are), there needn't be any deliberate decision to exclude the "zeroes". It'd be nice to have clarification on that, but since 8letters isn't reading this thread I guess he'll never know that people are wondering about it.

Also - how is 8letters obtaining this data? I have seen that question presented and 8letters' response is "gerbils" Does gerbils = backdoor hack?

A script. I've written similar scripts before, to answer questions like "who are the most frequent commenters on my stories?" or "how often does X author mention cup size in the first 1000 words?"

 

[HeyAll]

Is this established fact, or just Lit gossip?

I’ve done just the opposite - mostly as I was afraid of some of what actually then happened once I started being myself here.

I think I’ve said before, but the funniest was when I spoke to one guy (he PMed me) who was terrified I was a gay man trying to get photos of his cock. I’m sure that happens a lot .

Em

I know this for a fact. No interesting stories to tell, but it's true that some men (unknown amount) write as women. The writing gets more attention and comments, even more online sales. It has to do with men wanting to read erotica from a female perspective. So that gives incentive for a male writer to pose as a woman.

The opposite is true from crime fiction. If Literotica was a crime stories website, there is zero advantage for a man to write with a female account.

In some cases it's really obvious based on what's written in the bio.

I've never heard of a woman posing as a man to write on Literotica, though some mainstream women have written with male psydeunyms before (ie JK Rowling writes crime fiction with a man's name).

 

[EmilyMiller]

I've never heard of a woman posing as a man to write on Literotica, though some mainstream women have written with male psydeunyms before (ie JK Rowling writes crime fiction with a man's name).

Well you have now. I’ve not exactly kept it secret. I cover my Lit journey in endnotes to Wanting To Be Wanted (scroll down).

It’s not always a walk in the park being a girl on a sex forum.

Em

 

[Bramblethorn]

I know this for a fact. No interesting stories to tell, but it's true that some men (unknown amount) write as women. The writing gets more attention and comments, even more online sales. It has to do with men wanting to read erotica from a female perspective. So that gives incentive for a male writer to pose as a woman.

The opposite is true from crime fiction. If Literotica was a crime stories website, there is zero advantage for a man to write with a female account.

Seems to have worked out for Carmen Mola and Tania Carver:

https://www.theatlantic.com/enterta...pretending-to-be-women-to-write-books/535671/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...r-writer-carmen-mola-revealed-to-be-three-men